Symphonies and their meaning . /, 4W- -U- 4 j 4 ^ *=p s? § i- f £. F=E I r r f In its stiffness, its set, cramped energy, it hasthe feudal feeling of the first Allegro. Whenthe melody has a learned counter-theme, the atmosphere is more monastic. It has much of 398 SYMPHONIES AND THEIR MEANING complexity and close texture. But it is bubblingwith melody and rhythm. We soon find that, strangely, the first fournotes correspond, as motto, to that of the firstmovement. We do not know whether weought to notice that the first three notes are inboth movements the same. So we have every-where, in all so
Symphonies and their meaning . /, 4W- -U- 4 j 4 ^ *=p s? § i- f £. F=E I r r f In its stiffness, its set, cramped energy, it hasthe feudal feeling of the first Allegro. Whenthe melody has a learned counter-theme, the atmosphere is more monastic. It has much of 398 SYMPHONIES AND THEIR MEANING complexity and close texture. But it is bubblingwith melody and rhythm. We soon find that, strangely, the first fournotes correspond, as motto, to that of the firstmovement. We do not know whether weought to notice that the first three notes are inboth movements the same. So we have every-where, in all sorts of garb, this phrase: fe^EE Through a misty change of scene we are ledto the second melody, which is surely one of Largamente. 399 SYMPHONIES AND THEIR MEANING the simple, diatonic kind. Still, the motto isever present. With smooth, sweeping flight it lightly wingsaloft in successive curves into a climax of powerthat did not seem to lie in the germ of the the motto has all the say, and there is agreat rollicking of pairs of voices, each in duet,in the same motive coursing all about, losingall rein of regular pace, at last quieting downto the first melody. The answer of the latter at the very begin-ning we cannot ignore. It has a certain ancienthumor, sung as it is in barbaric unison, again andagain, like some well-seasoned popular strain: Strings, doubled below in Fagots and Cellos.
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